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Although this is a good idea in practice.. unless he is part of that domain this will not work. Most if not all ISP's deny a connection from an IP that is not part of their domain to prevent relaying, and anyone running a mail server would be retarded to not implement this feature

I guess I am cynical, but I believe that people are more interested in their bandwidth than my privacy.

I assume that it would be advantageous to spammers to verify the existence of an e-mail address before sending anything to it?

If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?

I doubt that any spammers would go through the trouble of verifying email addresses before spamming them. I sometimes send out more than 200,000 emails on a single day (from one server with a decent pipe); all I do is keep track of the returned ones so that I don't hit those anymore next time. But verifying their existence before sending? Just an extra step that doesn't really help me out...

I sometimes send out more than 200,000 emails on a single day (from one server with a decent pipe); all I do is keep track of the returned ones so that I don't hit those anymore next time.

Correct me if I am wrong, but don't spammers use fake addresses, so they wouldn't get the feedback (and the Feds ).

I don't know much about the details, but I believe that there is quite a market for spamming lists. If you could sell them as verified I would guess that you could charge more for them? The basic difference between legitimate and illegitimate usage?

If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?